Deriving Geographic Distribution of Physiological or Psychological Conditions of Human Speakers While Preserving Personal Privacy

1. A method comprising: for each speech signal of a plurality of speech signals: obtaining, by a computer, non-verbal components of the speech signal and a geographical location associated with the speech signal, the speech signal having been de-identified; deducing, by the computer, a physiological and/or psychological condition corresponding to the non-verbal components; and associating the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition with the respective geographical location of the obtained speech signal, thereby providing a geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein deducing further comprises using, at least in part, characteristics of the non-verbal components of the speech signal and/or information relating to physiological and/or psychological conditions of human speakers.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein deducing comprises evaluating information that specifies relationships between the characteristics of the non-verbal components of the speech signal and the physiological and/or the psychological condition of a human speaker associated with the speech signal.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising outputting the geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions and of human speakers associated with the physiological and/or psychological conditions at least by outputting an alarm if at least one criterion is met.

5. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising outputting the geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions and of human speakers associated with the physiological and/or psychological conditions.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining is performed for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals in at least two time-defined instances, thereby presenting a historical geographical distribution, by presenting, for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals, a change of the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition, over the at least two time-defined instances, in view of the geographical location thereof.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining further comprises obtaining the speech signal and extracting the non-verbal components from the speech signal, by the computer.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the speech signal having been de-identified comprises the speech signal having underwent time-domain scrambling and/or frequency-domain filtering.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining further comprises obtaining the geographical location from at least one telephone communication network.

10. A system comprising: a computer configured to, for each speech signal of a plurality of speech signals: obtain non-verbal components of the speech signal and a geographical location associated with the speech signal, the speech signal having been de-identified; deduce a physiological and/or psychological condition corresponding to the non-verbal components; and associate the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition with the respective geographical location of the obtained speech signal, thereby providing a geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions.

11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the computer is further configured to obtain the geographical location and the speech signal from at least one communication network.

12. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the computer is further configured to deduce the physiological and/or the psychological condition based, at least in part, on information about human respiratory systems.

13. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the computer is further configured to associate characteristics of the non-verbal components of the speech signal and the physiological and/or the psychological condition with effects of a particular health condition of a human speaker on the non-verbal components of a speech signal associated with the human speaker.

14. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the computer is further configured to, for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals, associate the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition with the geographical location in at least two time-defined instances, and thereby to present a historical geographical distribution, by presenting, for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals, a change of the physiological and/or psychological condition, over the at least two time-defined instances, in view of the geographical location thereof.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising: for each speech signal of a plurality of speech signals: obtaining non-verbal components of the speech signal and a geographical location associated with the speech signal, the speech signal having been de-identified; deducing a physiological and/or psychological condition corresponding to the non-verbal components; and associating the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition with the respective geographical location of the obtained speech, thereby providing a geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises deducing, at least in part, characteristics of the non-verbal components of the speech signal and/or information relating to physiological and/or psychological conditions of human speakers.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16 , wherein the method further comprises associating the characteristics of the non-verbal components of the speech signal and the physiological and/or the psychological condition with effects of a particular health condition of a human speaker on the non-verbal components of a speech signal associated with the human speaker.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises outputting the geographical distribution of the physiological and/or psychological conditions and of human speakers associated with the physiological and/or psychological conditions.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises obtaining, for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals, the speech signal in at least two time-defined instances, the thereby presenting a historical geographical distribution, by presenting, for each speech signal of the plurality of speech signals, a change of the deduced physiological and/or psychological condition, over the at least two time-defined instances, in view of the geographical location thereof.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises obtaining the geographical location from at least one telephone communication network.